Improvement in pruning-shears



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Letters Patent No. 103,197, dated May 17, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN` PRUNING-SHEARS. I

!'he Schedule referxd io in these Letters Patel-.t and massig pm cf the same.

" I, CLEMENT A. KELLOGG, of Elyria, in the county c is a' lieaded and stout bolt, passing through the j of Lorain and State of Ohio, have invented certain slot S,a'nd holding the two parts of the shears in the Improvements in Pruning-Shears, ot which the follow same plane, and allowing them to move smoothly.

ing is a specification. The shears represented have this advantage: The 'cutting-edite hein" at ri'rht anales with the handle, Mm" e m1, Object of the Imcmw" the limb t3 he euto canbbe broight very close to the t The tirst part ot' my invention is in the'shape given center orfulerum--mueh nearer than when right-lined i 1,?" the jaws Vof the shears, as they are related to the hanjaws cross each other in the usual form. The fnlcruin i dles, they being at right angles with the handles and i may be placed much nearer than is represented in the f pivoted in the angle, thereby giving the .zi-).ipalatns'` accompanying drawing, N J great power over. the resistance. p V 'Another advantage of this mode of constructing the The seeondfeature of the invention consists in the `cutting parts ofthe shears vis that the edgeents diagofact that the shape given the parts gives broad f'acings nally. as represented by the dotted line. M at the junction ot' the jaws together, combined with a Withshears like those represented, with a cuttingi .curved .slot and bolt, holding the parts firmly against edge three and ahalfinehes in length, an apple-tree or lateral displacement. other limb, an inch and a half in diameter, can bc cut ,r General Description. n with great ease' ln the accompanyingdrawing- Umm" A shows the holding-jaw of the shears, the part B l elaim'as my inventionbeing roundedand curved, and being tinished with lhe within-.described pruning-shears, consistingr oi a curved slot, S, made with a radins from the centhe curved blade G, connected, at right angles to its ter a. t l handle, andthe curved blade B, pivoted at a to the E, F, and H show the handle; only a small part of blade G, and provided` with va slot, S, through which `the wooden handlepis shown. The handles are about passes the guide c, connected to the part D, all conf" two and a half feet in length. structed and operated as shown andset fort-h. 1i i C and 1) show the cutting-jaw, with H, partof its CLEMENT A. KELLOGG. handle'. n I Witnesses:

The cutting-edge is cnrved, and at nearly-right an- L.I1. WARD,

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